Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-01
LITERARY NOTES.

The Overland loRihly, San Francisco, for
May, will contain several articles of great
interest and practical value to Southern
California and the Southwest. S. n. Sher-
iden describes the new harbor of La Bal
Iona" and the work now in progress there.
.. +. Cromwell writes OF the agricultu-
raj possibilities of New Mexico, in an arti-
Gle upon the ''Rio Grande Valley" Henry
| DeGrOOt contributes an exhaustive treatise
on 1.-The Mineral Resources of Southern
California" Other interesting articles
are: THE Causes of the Piute and Ran,
mock War; the first of series of Indian
War Papers by Maj. Gen. .. q. Howard
The Mission Of the Knights Of Labor, y
by Irving NJ. Scott Poems, reviews,
sketches OF travel and incident, the serials
"ChatS and Chinita" and ''PuntacoOset
Colony" short stories and essays, with q
supplement upon Albuquerque, New Mex
leo, and the region tributary thereto, COM
plete the number.
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This is the table of contents of the Mago
zine Of AmeriSm History New York for
May: Portrait of Mrs. Grover Cleveland,
frontispiece; The White House and it,
Memories, Historic Homes of our Presi
dents, with II illustrations, Mrs. Martha
J. Lamb; Republicans in Spanish Amer,
lea, Hon. William L. Scruggs; The Wa,
bash Country Prior to 1900, Isaac X
Strouse; Canada During the Victorian Era,
Part /, J. G.. BOurinOt; When Did Ohio
Become State? An Odd Controversy,
William Waddle, Jr.; A Literary Curl.
I Ey1kK yLa TIDg.tLg .f Ia4..,I sIg.I,Y fllt,.
| tTated, Rev. ID. +. IamsOn; Harvey Birch
and the Myth of EnOch Crosby, Gay Har.
court of SCarsdale; The First American
Rebel, DR.. Il. b. l.. Trippett; Quaint
Guide to POliteneSs, an illustrated note
minor topics, original documents, notes,
queries, replies, societies, book notices.
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The Forum New York. for May opens
with paper by Judge Bennett on Mar
riage Laws" The only remedy according
to his mind to cure the growing i'll of an
increased number OF divorces granted year
hy year should lie in legislative measures
controlling the marriage contract. Judge
Bennett would raise the lawful age of mar
riage; have previous announcements pub
/ licly made; have all marriages sOlemnized
in the presence Of witnesses, and. finally,
he would have all unions not entered into
according to these laws declared null and
void and "the parties held to criminal
prosecution" This latter clause strikes
one ~ little severe, but Judge Bennett
would allow Of no triiling "Many "a
young girl, " he says, will brave the in
dignatiOn Of her parents, the estrangement
of her friends and the criticism of the COM
munity in order to clandestinely marry
the object OF her iniatuation, when the
prospect Of prison bars would he an eiIec-
tual check in her wild career" General
Francis A. Walker and Professor William
q. Sumner have each paper in this num-
her. General Walker writes on 1.-THE So
cialiSt, not socialism, and Professor SUM
nCr on THE Indians in 1887"
In the forthcoming article on "Phar-
Oah," in the May Century, New York,
Professor j. A. Paine, who will
he remembered rs the identiiier
of Mt. Pisgah) advances the novel theory
that Rameses the Great married his own
daughter, the patToResS Of Moses. Ii has
been held by some authorities that this
''PharOah's daughter" was the child of
Seti l., who preceded RameSes the Great,
and that in uniting herself to Rameses she
married her own brother: Professor Paine,
however, points out indications and evil
dence proving that she was not the daugh-
ter, hut the granddaughter, OF Seti, and
that she married her own father.